Stunning contenders for Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

A red fox in a derelict schoolroom, a Bengal Tiger in the forests of Bhutan and walruses are just a few of animals featured in the photos shortlisted for this year’s Wildlife Photographer of......

The uncommon creator of that Common Man

Eminent cartoonist R K Laxman has died at a Pune hospital at the age of 94. Back in 1997, we had carried an excerpt from Past Forward, an autobiographical book which carried anecdotes of eminent......

The uncommon creator of that Common Man

Eminent cartoonist R K Laxman has died at a Pune hospital at the age of 94. Back in 1997, we had carried an excerpt from Past Forward, an autobiographical book which carried anecdotes of eminent......

Diary: The vacant lot

We always lost people along the way, and that day was no exception.Vinay lived only a block away from school, so he was always the first to go. He ran into his yard and slowly climbed the stairs to......

Review: Finding Fanny is wickedly fantastic

Finding Fanny strikes gold, raves Raja Sen. Some beholders like it big. Colombian artist Fernando Botero, a fine fetishist of the fleshy, spent decades drawing and sculpting the ornately obese, men......

'We wanted to top Borat in The Babymakers'

Indian American actor-director Jay Chandrasekhar's films usually deal with young men indulging in beer drinking, pot smoking, a lot of dirty jokes and nudity. All of this appeals to the films'......

Raja Sen reviews The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man's Spider-Man soars and director Marc Webb lets us tag along for the ride, writes Raja SenWe've seen it before, of course. We know he gets bitten by accident, yahoos about his......

Beerfest works great for overgrown kids

We've all kinda been there. Alright, so we haven't woken up like Barry Badrinath, lying naked by the woods next to an antelope's carcass. Badrinath with a telltale red stain on his mouth, the......